The Dialogue to Action Initiative has been getting a lot of great feedback from dialogue leaders and practitioners in the past year. It's what keeps us going.
This is our 'brag page.' Feel free to read it over and over - we like to! And feel free to email us at with YOUR opinion of the site and what it offers (good or bad, of course).
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"This is by far the best website I have seen to date on community dialogue."
Neil Laslett
Senior Program Officer, Institute for World Affairs
www.iwa.org
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"The Dialogue to Action Initiative is an incredible contribution to the field."
Maggie Potapchuk
Senior Program Officer, National Association Bridging Race & Ethnicity (NABRE)
www.jointcenter.org/nabre
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"I'm so grateful you are so committed to this work and to being such an important part of the process. It would all die without someone like you to keep it moving, take the responsibility of connecting everyone, etc. It's really thankless work, and hard focused work, and I am so grateful to you and to your heart for this."
Cricket White
Hope in the Cities
www.hopeinthecities.org
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"Congratulations, Sandy, on an engaging, most helpful website. It's going to benefit lots of people."
John Maguire
President Emeritus, Claremont Graduate University
Senior Fellow, CGU's Institute for Democratic Renewal
www.race-democracy.org
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"I just visited your site for the first time--what a wonderful resource! We are presently inspired to initiate community dialogue on a broad scale here in Nova Scotia, and I can imagine spending hours perusing the tips and insights collected on your site."
Susan Szpakowski
Co-Director
The Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership
www.shambhalainstitute.org
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"Awesome website and resource. I will post your site on mine."
Lauren Kucera
Executive Director
CoAction
www.antiracism.com
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"I think the Dialogue to Action Initiative is wonderful."
Deborah Heimann
Editorial Director
The Communication Initiative
www.comminit.com
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Thanks for the great web site. It's given me a lot of good ideas (for both better dialogue and design)!
Ben Wright
National Conference for Community and Justice (Los Angeles)
www.nccj.org
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"I checked out the Dialogue to Action web site and it has some terrific resources for people interested in conducting dialogues. It strikes me that this is also a terrific resource for instructors and tutors. It has some great dialogue questions on race and some terrific resources for dialogue leaders."
Taylor L. Willingham
Austin-Pacific Consulting Co.
www.austin-pacific.com
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"You are a great networker and resource provider. Keep up the good work."
Paula Green
Director, Karuna Center for Peacebuilding
www.karunacenter.org
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"Your website has been bookmarked since I found out about it! I found the resources very helpful. In fact, I just taught a 2-day workshop on how to facilitate dialogues and included your website in my list of resources."
Bernike Carstarphen
Ph.D. candidate, Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University
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"I've just visited your web site. It's absolutely wonderful! ?…Excellent work. I will definitely benefit from the very well organized information you provide!"
Kelly Mirsky
Study Abroad Coordinator, Illinois State University
www.ilstu.edu
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"The Dialogue to Action Initiative is an incredible resource. Keep up the good work!"
Diane Goodman
Author of Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups
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"Excellent job. Sure I'll be turning to it frequently. I've recommended it to the members of our racial justice and healing ministry."
Richard Taylor
Co-Chair, African American Leadership Ministry
St. Vincent de Paul Church (Philadelphia, PA)
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"I just visited your website and I just wanted to let you know that I think it's a wonderful resource. I wanted to express appreciation to you on the effort that you have put into the site. I will be referring people to the site?…. [In reference to the DialogueLeaders discussion list,] I find it extremely important to make connections with others who are doing this work."
Joycelyn Landrum-Brown, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Educational Psychology Coordinator,
Program on Intergroup Relations, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
www.intergrouprelations.uiuc.edu
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"Thanks for sending this [info about DAI] along to us. We get many things out of the blue, but few with as much interest or relevance to our own efforts."
Ted Howard
Executive Director, The Democracy Collaborative
www.democracycollaborative.org
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"The website is wonderful and I have forwarded it to a number of my colleagues."
Carol Lark
Art Therapist and Group Psychotherapist, The Art Therapy Center
www.art-therapy.com
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"Awesome! Great and useful information."
Michael Shaw
Association of Idaho Cities
www.idahocities.org
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"Gee whiz, you have such a great website!"
Waurene Roberson
www.newmississippi.com
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"Your website is the 'way to go'! Congratulations! Keep up the good work!"
Chris Miller
Convenor, Common Ground (Rocky Mount, NC)
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"Your great website is a valuable resource for our campus."
Julia Adame
Director, UCSD Student Affairs
Student Office for Human Relations, University of California, San Diego
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"Thank you for sharing your website information. It's a remarkably helpful site, with wonderful information. We will be sure to pass it along to others."
Becki Elkins
The University of Iowa
www.uiowa.edu
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"This is a great site. Lots of good information and resources. I know I am going to enjoy reading everything!"
Ben Wright
National Conference for Community & Justice
www.nccj.org
